DFS Replication Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft DFS Replication (DFSR)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for DFS Replication skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DFS Replication over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 348 469 -
Rank change year-on-year +121 - -
Contract jobs citing DFS Replication 1 5 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.007% 0.019% -
As % of the System Software category 0.069% 0.16% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £275 -
Median % change year-on-year +72.73% - -
UK median daily rate £475 £275 £466
% change year-on-year +72.73% -41.02% +9.71%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

DFS Replication is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,452 3,192 5,524
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.48% 12.41% 12.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,058 2,284 4,080
10th Percentile £263 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £612 £632 £625
90th Percentile £677 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 103 104
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.20 £14.28
25th Percentile £16.25 £47.95 £17.69
Median hourly rate £46.39 £65.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.63% +165.31% -38.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.13 £52.81
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.90 £65.86
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £53.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.14% +168.75% -

DFS Replication
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing DFS Replication as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DFS Replication trend for jobs with a WFH option

DFS Replication
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DFS Replication.

DFS Replication daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DFS Replication
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) NetScaler
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) VBScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (100.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Ivanti
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec
1 1 (100.00%) VMware